Extinct Monsters and Creatures of Other Days

The book that introduced the public to dinosaurs: sea-lizards, flying dragons, mammoths and the first horse, drawn from life by J. Smit and told by a clergyman-geologist who thought the museum's 'relics of a former world' deserved a storyteller.

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Footprints on the Sands of Time: Williamson

Professor W. C. Williamson has described some very interesting impressions from Cheshire. They were found, by a former pupil of his (Mr. J. W. Kirkham), near Weston Point. They are unlike those of the Cheirotherium, previously described, and differ from all others yet found in showing very distinctly what are probably the marks of scales. The form of the foot also differs in being more quadrate. Professor Williamson says it reminds him of certain footprints found by Dr. King in the Carboniferous rocks of Pennsylvania. The arrangement of the scales corresponds closely with that seen on the foot of a modern alligator. The impressions suggest a saurian much more than an amphibian.

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